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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Social Justice Book Group: The Bluest Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThis month we will discuss The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 
 \n\n You can request this title from our catalog. \n\nAbout the 
 book:\n\nEleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove\, an African-American girl in an 
 America whose love for blonde\, blue-eyed children can devastate all 
 others\, prays for her eyes to turn blue\, so that she will be beautiful\, 
 people will notice her\, and her world will be different. The story of 
 eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove\, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's 
 haunting first novel\, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who 
 wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's prosperous black families\, as well 
 as its white families\, Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and 
 embittered\, overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that reeks 
 of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives. In awe of her 
 clean well-groomed schoolmates\, and certain of her own intense ugliness\, 
 Pecola tries to make herself disappear as she wishes fervently\, 
 desperately for the blue eyes of a white girl.\n\nIn her afterward to this 
 novel\, Morrison writes of the little girl she once knew: "Beauty was not 
 simply something to behold\, it was something one could do. The Bluest Eye 
 was my effort to say something about that\; to say something about why she 
 had not\, or possibly never would have\, the experience of what she 
 possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration. Implicit in 
 her desire was racial self-loathing. And twenty-years later I was still 
 wondering about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel that 
 it was better to be a freak that what she was? Who had looked at her and 
 found her so wanting\, so small a weight on the beauty scale? The novel 
 pecks away at the gaze that condemned her."\n\n\nWe strive to learn more 
 about the world outside our own bubbles. We read both nonfiction and 
 fiction on timely topics and in our discussions try to challenge our own 
 assumptions without judging one another.\n\n\nJoin us on Zoom! \n\nWe will 
 be hosting a hybrid meeting\, so you can also attend in person in the 
 Watson Room at Forbes. \n\n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\n 
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LOCATION:Watson Room
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CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Book Discussions, Recurring Events, Virtual
CONTACT;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
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